Nelson County: flooded with memories 37 years after the fatal deluge, peeping pastor gets 60 days, Lethal driver guilty in life-changing wreck, and DMB superstars Boyd Tinsley and Fenton Williams talk about what it all means.
It's all here in this week's edition of the Hook. (Sorry for the technically glitches that delayed this week's HookCast!)
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UVA has dumped its early decision admission program in the wake of similar decisions by Harvard and Princeton universities, the school announced yesterday. The program, which accounts for 30 percent of accepted students, was eliminated in an attempt to provide greater accessibility to low-income students.
"The opportunity of early decision," said UVA President John T.
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A national realtors' report that home prices dropped for the first time in 10 years in August doesn't have dire implications here yet– although prices of properties in the $500,000 range and above could be lower than a year ago, according to local real estate guru Dave Phillips.
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There's more bad news for Senator George Allen, who's spent the last several weeks of his campaign first doing damage control for his "Macaca" incident and then adjusting to news that he's from a Jewish family.
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Bob Gibson, the dean of political reporting at the Daily Progress, reveals today in his Sunday column another bizzare Jewish roots denial from Senator George Allen– this one from way back in 2003.
As Americans have been learning over the past week, unlike some public figures such as Madeleine Albright, who revel in revelations about their ancestry, Allen initially took a stance conveying
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UVA's third-string quarterback is on his way to a second start, the coach confirmed tonight, and some are talking about an entire season.
Despite the lopsided loss to Georgia Tech yesterday, Jameel Sewell, a Richmond-area redshirt freshman will start another game as UVA's starting QB when the Cavalier's play Duke September 30. "In staff discussions today, we all felt he handled himself positively," head coach Al Groh said tonight in a conference call.
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With its angular lines, large windows, three decks, and galvanized steel roof, the Eco-Mod house on 7-1/2 Street off Cherry Avenue looks like it could have come right out of the pages of Architectural Digest.
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The company whose "we salute you" Bud Light commercials often thank people for minor accomplishments has made a major gift to the university that prides itself on taking a leadership role in fighting risky drinking.
"We salute you, University of Virginia," Anheuser-Busch spokesperson Francine Katz declared today in a Rotunda Dome Roo
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Last night, the Jade Task Force (the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force) seized 1000 Ecstasy tablets with a street vale of $25,000 during an undercover operation in the 1700 block area of Hydraulic Road, according to a press release. Hung Ngoc Nguyen, 49, was arrested on two counts of distributing the drug and is being held without bond at the Albemarle/Charlottesville Regional Jail.
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With the opening of the John Paul Jones Arena, UVA hopes to see its fair share of hoops luminaries pass through its doors playing for the Cavaliers in the next several decades. What better way to get the new era started than with the band whose #1 hit was called "Shining Star"?
That's right, funkophiles.
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Former governor Mark Warner has been called a lot of names in his political career, but luddite isn't one of them. From founding what would become cell phone giant Nextel to being one of the first politicians with his own blog, Warner has always been on the cutting edge of communications technology.
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The father of the 15-year-old ensnared in Albemarle County's bomb conspiracy dragnet escaped his own possible bout behind bars today, as a judge agreed that the dad's intent wasn't sufficient to warrant a conviction.
"Technically, I think you violated the court order," said Circuit Court Judge Paul Peatross. "I'm dismissing the contempt.
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The UVA fourth-year student who died of bacterial meningitis last week had Strain B, the least infectious strain of the disease, the Centers for Disease Control reported on Monday.
The news is what UVA administrators were hoping to hear. "That strain is less likely to cause outbreaks among several people, and generally causes isolated, single cases," said UVA's executive director of student health, Dr.
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On the steps of the main branch on East Market Street Thursday, September 21, at 10am, officials from Albemarle County and the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library will announce that they have selected Grimm & Parker Architects of Mclean (in association with Heyward Boyd Architects here in town) to design the new
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Two days after refusing to apologize for running two controversial comics depicting Jesus Christ, the Cavalier Daily issued a statement today apologizing for the cartoons. UVA third-year Grant Woolard drew the cartoons for his comic strip Quirksmith. The statement reads, in part: "Offense was not our intent-Ã¢â?¬â??
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If you've tuned in to the morning show on WINA news radio in the past few days, you've likely heard hosts Jay James and Jane Foy bemoaning the high gasoline prices in this area and talking about some poll in which 82 percent of their listeners believe they're getting gouged.
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In a segment on the September 13 broadcast of the O'Reilly Factor, Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly called out University of Virginia president John Casteen, saying that he was "hiding behind his desk" and called on his viewers to flood Casteen's office with letters.
Those remarks came during a segment about two cartoons run in the August 23 and 24 editions of the Cavalier Daily.
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David Breeden, the soapstone sculptor of Biscuit Run and patriarch of a clan that includes seven offspring, died Tuesday of heart failure at age 68, according to his obituary in the Daily Progress.
Seven of his 89,200 signed, original works adorn Charlottesville and are found in other American cities and in the Caribbean.
Last year, when the 1,365-acre Forest Lodge tract that surroun
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Approximately 5,000 people piled into UVAÃ¢â?¬â?¢s amphitheater last night. That volume of people on a Tuesday evening can only mean one thing: Tom DeLuca's back in town.
Postponed two weeks by tropical storm Ernesto, the popular annual visitor is a hypnotist who performs for colleges and corporate audiences across the country. But he says UVA is by far the biggest show he does.
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Charlottesville police are on the lookout for two suspects who allegedly shot and robbed a UVA fourth year who was sitting on the porch of a residence in the 1000 block of Wertland Street early Sunday morning.
According to a press release, emergency personnel received a 911 call at 3:50am yesterday and found the 21-year-old male with one gunshot wound in his abdomen.
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On Saturday, the trustees of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, despite the chants of critics and a possible legal threat by former gubernatorial hopeful Wyatt Durrette, voted to admit men to the Lynchburg institution. Yesterday's showdown comes to life in an Associated Press story. Left unstated is what a coed R-MWC might be called.
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A Charlottesville jury decided yesterday that UVA student Tamira Roberson, charged as part of an alleged break-in and brawl at a fraternity house in March, lied about her presence at the scene but did not actually trespass.
According to a story in this morning's Daily Progress, Roberson was seen lying on videotape in an initial police interview when she claimed not to have been present in the Delta Upsilon house, which was the site of an alleged mutli-person
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Monticello plans to close tomorrow morning for three hours, at the height of the weekend tourist rush, for a visit from former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami.
"We do realize that visits of this nature are an inconvenience to our staff and visitors, but in the long run, they're rewarding and beneficial," says Monticello spokesperson Wayne Mogielnicki.
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This is the HookCast of September 7, 2006, and there are some amazing stories in this week's edition: tales of surviving 9/11... and not surviving 9/11. Plus, the "ringleader" in the alleged teen bomb plot takes a plea that spares him jail time. But it's not over yet. Now, one of the dads faces contempt charges for writing a letter to the Albemarle County School Board.
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Following in the grand tradition of the Golden Globe-winning The Four Seasons, the James-Spader-and-John-Cusack-starring True Colors and even the Alan Smithee-directed Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
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In his 2002 State of the Union address, President Bush said, "Iran aggressively pursues these weapons [of mass destruction] and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom," and called the Iranian government one-third of "an axis of evil."
Over four years later, the man who was leading Iran at the time, former president Muhammad Khatami, lectured in the Dome Room of t
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Ralph Sampson, the towering figure who ruled U-Hall and transformed UVA basketball into a national powerhouse in the early 1980s, will serve two months in jail as part of the continuing investigation into his finances sparked by his failure to pay court-ordered child support.
According to an Associated Press story released today, Sampson's Richmond lawyer secured a plea that saved the 7'4" UVA and N
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Katie Couric will make history tonight as she becomes the first female solo anchor of a network news broadcast. The UVA alumna debuts at 6:30pm on the CBS Evening News, joining a network that has been home to journalism heavyweights Edward R.
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Two years after suffering the federal punishment that let Belmont kids enroll in other Charlottesville schools, George Rogers Clark Elementary has worked its way out of the dreaded "choice" program.
Principal James Pierce says the news arrived last Thursday, August 31 at a staff meeting– after custodian Butch Smith made his usual in
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It was late April 1998 when someone telephoned what was then known as the Luray Reptile Center, now the Luray Zoo, asking if their group could see some rattlesnakes.
"I said, 'Yeah, if you've got six dollars," recalls Zoo co-owner Mark Kilby.
It was only when a film crew arrived that Kilby realized he had a Discovery Channel celebrity in his midst: Steve Irwin, aka the "Crocodile Hunter," who died September 4 when a stin
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The Albemarle Circuit Court, lately keeping a tight hold on the records of the juvenile defendants in the alleged conspiracy-to-blow-up-high-schools cases, has released documents containing emails, instant messages, and MySpace pages of the so-called "ringleader," a troubled teen who attended Western Albemarle High School before his January 31 arrest.
There's idolizing of kings of mayhem, particularly Colum
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With the National Weather Service's local forecast calling for wind gusts up to 50 mph and possible flash flooding, both Charlottesville City and Albemarle County will close schools early today.
"We wanted to make sure all students were home before weather conditions deteriorate further and that buses had completed their runs," said a source in Charlottesville School's Central Office, declining to be identified.
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You gotta love hurricane season– it's predictable. They said it was gonna rain today, and then you wake up and, by George, it's raining.
What you really gotta love, though, is the Weather Underground.
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